Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 238 318
Rank change year-on-year -125 +80 -86
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 460 636 942
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.42% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.53% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 218 286 539
10th Percentile £38,750 £48,750 £37,639
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £51,516
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £68,338
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +6.09% +1.24%
75th Percentile £85,938 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,750 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £64,627 £58,700
% change year-on-year -2.40% +10.10% -9.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68,746 41,496 89,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.03% 92.46% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,319 22,262 63,244
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 20 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -132 418 £67,136 -7.40% 204
London -31 259 £80,000 - 132
Work from Home +62 255 £63,076 -5.15% 85
UK excluding London -179 150 £63,076 -2.40% 106
North of England -5 53 £71,255 -10.93% 25
North West +21 36 £85,000 +6.25% 14
East of England -6 27 £65,000 -7.14% 11
South East -142 25 £46,250 -33.93% 39
Midlands -37 20 £60,000 -13.04% 11
South West -89 20 £69,056 +15.09% 12
West Midlands -21 17 £60,000 -14.29% 7
Yorkshire -38 14 £61,963 +90.65% 13
Scotland +4 5 £85,000 +4.62% 9
East Midlands -40 3 £95,847 +59.74% 4
Wales -45 3 £69,501 +16.11%
North East -47 3 £63,076 -23.54% 2

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 13 (2.83%) Confluence
3 9 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.96%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.87%) CMS
5 1 (0.22%) Drupal
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 53 (11.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 26 (5.65%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (8.48%) Workfront
2 5 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.09%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.87%) Shopify
4 2 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Magento
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.22%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 84 (18.26%) AWS
2 58 (12.61%) SaaS
3 54 (11.74%) Azure
4 53 (11.52%) iPaaS
5 18 (3.91%) Pulumi
6 16 (3.48%) GCP
7 14 (3.04%) GitHub
7 14 (3.04%) Power Platform
8 13 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (2.17%) GitHub Copilot
10 9 (1.96%) OneDrive
11 8 (1.74%) Figma
12 7 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.30%) Asana
14 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (0.87%) Azure AI
15 4 (0.87%) Google Workspace
15 4 (0.87%) H2O.ai
15 4 (0.87%) Miro
15 4 (0.87%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 80 (17.39%) Broadband
2 30 (6.52%) HTTP
3 10 (2.17%) WAN
4 8 (1.74%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.30%) Firewall
5 6 (1.30%) LAN
6 5 (1.09%) Multicast
6 5 (1.09%) Network Security
6 5 (1.09%) NGN
7 4 (0.87%) MPLS
7 4 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.65%) WLAN
9 2 (0.43%) DNS
9 2 (0.43%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.43%) SAN
9 2 (0.43%) Wireless
10 1 (0.22%) Internet
10 1 (0.22%) NX-OS
10 1 (0.22%) RS-232
10 1 (0.22%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (12.39%) Metadata
2 19 (4.13%) Relational Database
3 18 (3.91%) NoSQL
3 18 (3.91%) RDBMS
4 12 (2.61%) Power BI
5 7 (1.52%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.09%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.65%) Big Data
7 3 (0.65%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.65%) Tableau
8 2 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.43%) Mixpanel
9 1 (0.22%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.22%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 27 (5.87%) JIRA
2 18 (3.91%) Jaeger
3 6 (1.30%) Git
4 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.22%) GitLab
4 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.22%) Selenium
General
1 159 (34.57%) Marketing
2 141 (30.65%) Finance
3 140 (30.43%) Social Skills
4 69 (15.00%) Banking
5 60 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 57 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
6 57 (12.39%) Retail
7 51 (11.09%) Influencing Skills
8 48 (10.43%) Presentation Skills
9 45 (9.78%) Law
10 30 (6.52%) Public Sector
11 27 (5.87%) Legal
12 22 (4.78%) Back Office
13 14 (3.04%) Italian Language
13 14 (3.04%) Retail Banking
14 13 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (2.61%) Manufacturing
16 11 (2.39%) German Language
17 9 (1.96%) Spanish Language
17 9 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 133 (28.91%) Product Manager
2 82 (17.83%) Lead
3 73 (15.87%) Product Owner
4 69 (15.00%) Senior
5 40 (8.70%) Senior Manager
6 37 (8.04%) Senior Product Manager
7 34 (7.39%) Software Engineer
8 31 (6.74%) Development Engineer
9 30 (6.52%) Software Development Engineer
10 21 (4.57%) Developer
11 20 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
12 18 (3.91%) Consultant
13 17 (3.70%) Product Lead
14 15 (3.26%) Cloud Engineer
15 14 (3.04%) Business Consultant
15 14 (3.04%) Business Development Consultant
15 14 (3.04%) Development Consultant
16 13 (2.83%) Platform Manager
17 12 (2.61%) AWS Developer
17 12 (2.61%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (6.96%) REST
2 18 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (3.91%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (1.52%) PyTorch
3 7 (1.52%) TensorFlow
4 6 (1.30%) CSS
4 6 (1.30%) HTML
5 5 (1.09%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (0.87%) Keras
6 4 (0.87%) LangChain
6 4 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.65%) .NET
7 3 (0.65%) LangGraph
7 3 (0.65%) Spring
7 3 (0.65%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.43%) FHIR
8 2 (0.43%) Pandas
8 2 (0.43%) Plotly
8 2 (0.43%) Seaborn
9 1 (0.22%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 162 (35.22%) Product Ownership
2 65 (14.13%) Social Media
3 54 (11.74%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (11.74%) Over-the-Top Content
4 36 (7.83%) Cloud Native
5 31 (6.74%) Public Cloud
6 21 (4.57%) Onboarding
7 18 (3.91%) Management Information System
8 15 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.39%) Enterprise Cloud
9 11 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (2.39%) Web Conferencing
10 8 (1.74%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.74%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.74%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.52%) Podcast
12 6 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.09%) Linux
2 19 (4.13%) Unix
3 9 (1.96%) Windows
4 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.22%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (66.09%) Roadmaps
2 217 (47.17%) Agile
3 136 (29.57%) Product Roadmap
4 125 (27.17%) Product Vision
5 107 (23.26%) Decision-Making
6 93 (20.22%) AI
6 93 (20.22%) Mentoring
7 91 (19.78%) User Stories
8 86 (18.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 84 (18.26%) Stakeholder Management
10 82 (17.83%) Customer Experience
10 82 (17.83%) Product Requirements
11 81 (17.61%) Product Backlog
12 73 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
13 72 (15.65%) Sprint Planning
14 67 (14.57%) Workflow
15 63 (13.70%) Software Engineering
16 62 (13.48%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 61 (13.26%) Matrix Organization
17 61 (13.26%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 55 (11.96%) Java
2 38 (8.26%) Python
3 27 (5.87%) JavaScript
4 20 (4.35%) Bash
5 18 (3.91%) Go
6 10 (2.17%) SQL
7 6 (1.30%) Bicep
8 3 (0.65%) C#
8 3 (0.65%) C++
8 3 (0.65%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.65%) PHP
8 3 (0.65%) R
9 1 (0.22%) C
9 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 73 (15.87%) Degree
2 19 (4.13%) AWS Certification
3 14 (3.04%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.61%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.39%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.96%) HND
7 8 (1.74%) HNC
8 7 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.52%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.30%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.87%) CCNA
10 4 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.87%) CSPO
10 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.65%) CISSP
12 2 (0.43%) ACCA
12 2 (0.43%) Dell Certification
12 2 (0.43%) IIBA
12 2 (0.43%) MCSA
12 2 (0.43%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.43%) QA
2 19 (4.13%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.17%) GDPR
4 9 (1.96%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.87%) PERC
5 4 (0.87%) SLA
6 2 (0.43%) DICOM
6 2 (0.43%) HL7
6 2 (0.43%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.43%) PMO
7 1 (0.22%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.22%) GRC
7 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (5.22%) Docker
2 3 (0.65%) Firmware
3 2 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.43%) vSphere
4 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (6.96%) Terraform
2 22 (4.78%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.91%) Ansible
3 18 (3.91%) Argo
3 18 (3.91%) Kustomize
3 18 (3.91%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.65%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.43%) WSUS
6 1 (0.22%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 60 (13.04%) Adobe
2 47 (10.22%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.09%) Google
4 14 (3.04%) Oracle
5 10 (2.17%) Cisco
6 9 (1.96%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.30%) Dell
8 5 (1.09%) Bloomberg
8 5 (1.09%) CQG
8 5 (1.09%) Databricks
8 5 (1.09%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.09%) ION Trading
8 5 (1.09%) Juniper
8 5 (1.09%) Patsystems
8 5 (1.09%) Reuters
8 5 (1.09%) Trayport
9 4 (0.87%) NVIDIA
9 4 (0.87%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.87%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 4 (0.87%) Toshiba